Hello fellow readers and thank you for reading my blog. This week I want to talk about code reviews which are essential to the testing process in computer science. I read a blog post by greenido (Ido Green), where he talks about how code reviews will improve you. He begins his blog by talking about how code reviews promote social interaction as you would like your team members make comments on how to improve your code so it is the best it can be. Most companies like Facebook, Netflix and Google are also using code reviews as a way of promoting social interaction and improving as a company. Then Mr.Green goes into other reasons you would ask for a peer review and they are: Bugs(Accidental errors/Structural errors), helps you get better and lastly they will help make sure it is readable/testable. It also benefits developers in many ways such as increases productivity, reduces unit testing/debugging time, less time performing rework and many more reasons. He also dug up some data and research and provide several different examples of times where code reviews have helped. Lastly, he talks about what not to do which is skip a peer review due to time, never judge coder off the review and always suggest solutions.

This blog was very well written and helped me understand why peer review code reviews are important to the testing development. I’m pretty self conscious about most of my work, back when people had to peer review essays for class, I would always hate when someone read my paper because I felt like it was bad. Well with code I know I’m not the best and I understand after reading the blog that to get better I need to have someone help review my code. What makes sense to me, may make no sense to someone else that is reading my code and I need to make sure my team members know what is going on during a certain part of my code. That goes back to part of the blog where Mr.Green talks about readability in your code and how the peer reviews are important for discovering if everything will make sense. Also if you’re working on a project with someone else, you would want the opposite where you want to review their code and make sure you get the general grasp of it so you can understand what it does. In my recent projects that I have had in my computer science classes, I try my best to make sure my code is easily readable for the teacher. Code reviews are essential to the testing process without it coding would be worse.

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